(02-19-2018 08:47 PM)oliveandblue Wrote:  I used to be somewhat liberal in terms of economics. That was when I was a teenager. By 22, I realized that welfare in the US was actually just a poverty trap designed to degrade minorities. As much as I don't always trust business, I think that people who trust the government to take care of them are foolish.

Kinda the same here.

I was neutral to sympathetic to welfare and welfare recipients until I heard a friend of a friend explaining how she didn't want to get a job as to not ruin her "benefits".

The thought of people expecting me to go to work every day but not wanting to do so themselves because they'd rather have "benefits" enraged me.

Been 100% anti welfare since.

(02-19-2018 07:44 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  

(02-19-2018 03:15 PM)dfarr Wrote:  I used to be pro-death penalty, but now I'm essentially against it unless there's no question that the perp is guilty.

Esto^^^

Let's take our latest school shooter, Cruz. If I heard right there are various witnesses that saw him do the shooting. For him nothing is better than to do the same to him, that is, the death penalty. Stupid S, could have joined the military and had his wish to try his weapon but it's not the same when in Afghanistan and Iraq they shoot back.

I don't not agree with the death penalty on guilty verdicts from circumstantial evidence. Too many have died and have been innocent.

Every time I start to get soft on the death penalty, we have some outrageous crime that definitely needs it.

There are mistakes. Juries (or judges) need to be aware of that when sentencing.

My biggest complaint with the death penalty is that we allow it to drag out too long.

(02-22-2018 08:03 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  

(02-19-2018 08:47 PM)oliveandblue Wrote:  I used to be somewhat liberal in terms of economics. That was when I was a teenager. By 22, I realized that welfare in the US was actually just a poverty trap designed to degrade minorities. As much as I don't always trust business, I think that people who trust the government to take care of them are foolish.

Kinda the same here.

I was neutral to sympathetic to welfare and welfare recipients until I heard a friend of a friend explaining how she didn't want to get a job as to not ruin her "benefits".

The thought of people expecting me to go to work every day but not wanting to do so themselves because they'd rather have "benefits" enraged me.

Been 100% anti welfare since.

funny how that plays out, eh?

I filed my first W-2 at the age of 14....hell, I think you now have to be 16 in all 58 states

I now watch the flock gather at the first of each month waiting fo' cap'n hero mailman....

hell, even billy bob's corn cob understood "reform".....

what a fk'n joke today's dippos have become....

it's truly sad having watched this happen over my lifetime......it didn't have to go down that way....

#reason1838458586whyIhatepolitics

(02-19-2018 12:27 PM)Lush Wrote:  man, i heard grass in colorado was cheap as sh!t because of all the competition. you could probably tax it quite a bit and it'd be still affordable. i haven't run the numbers

I went into a shop while I was out there. It ranges anywhere between $75 and $250 for an ounce at the store I was in. I think that price includes tax, but I'm not 100% on that.

When I was younger I was anti life/pro abortion now I'm pro life/anti abortion. Having a child and seeing for myself there is a live human being in there changed my stance.

Also I was very much pro death penalty but now not so much. If there is clear irrefutable evidence then I'm still ok but it should be carried out within the first year.

(02-22-2018 08:34 AM)Niner National Wrote:  

(02-19-2018 12:27 PM)Lush Wrote:  man, i heard grass in colorado was cheap as sh!t because of all the competition. you could probably tax it quite a bit and it'd be still affordable. i haven't run the numbers

I went into a shop while I was out there. It ranges anywhere between $75 and $250 for an ounce at the store I was in. I think that price includes tax, but I'm not 100% on that.

fwiw, I know somebody local getting KB at 75/quarter oz, delivered via USPS......

I told her she was a fk'n idiot going that route.....she has exposed assets.....

reason #XXXXXXX why this is so fk'n stupid in scope.....